Because your inventory is rarely defined distinctly and unique it is necessary to block some inventory if others have been sold. This might be for
Here a print example: You have the option to sell a page in your periodical either in two half pages or one whole page. Having sold one or the other to a customer would restrict your available offers. To do so use the ADvendio "blocking inventory" objects and related lists.
ADvendio can manage the following blocking types:
Doing so is easy and it works the same for all three objects.
First, your administrator has to add the related lists to the respective object: i.e. add Blocked Placements to your Placement Layout.
Click on the new button to create a new record and enter
The same you can do for AdTypes and AdSpecs. Simply add the related list to your page layout and define which record blocks which.
You can do it only one way using master and dependent record or create two records if they both block each other.
If you are using one of the three Blocking Types make sure that you have your booking calendar template set to show exactly that field:
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Constant Quantity=Quantity
Rounds always to an Integer using the following rules -
Value | round | Value | Example |
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Booked | up | 0,000001 | 1 |
Offered | up | 0,000001 | 1 |
available | down | 0,000001 | 0 |
If Constant Quantity=Frequency or Constant Quantity=Guaranteed AI: System does not round
Only the blocked Ad Spec/AdPrice (as one line in the booking calendar) will show them as over-booked and not negative value should be inherited to next level.
Example:
Example:
Examples:
This AdSpec is sold in US Dollar and Euro on two different price list: Special and Standard. But once sold it can't be sold at another price. Therefore it also has a self-blocking record.If I sell it now to one customer for a specific day the booking calendar will show it as blocked so that I can't double book. Here is what the booking calendar for that item will look like. Please make sure to include the column AdSpec Name into the layout otherwise the second line would not show in red!
Example Out of Home: One AdPrice with a Placement "single sided" is blocking itself. This means that is availability decrease once it has been booked. Other line items with the same AdPrice, but the same Placement will be blocked, if you have created a blocking record for the placement to block "single sided" with "single sided" (itself). The Position Chart will handle this as if a "real" Blocking record with factor 1 exists.